20th April 2019
Necandi Homines is an Italian quartet that has specialized in an sound that is excessively slow, simple and somewhat laden with detached melancholy. Not something I would claim is easy to do, yet Black Hole, […]
17th April 2019
Present Days, Future Days might be IX – The Hermit’s debut, but band’s members have released numerous releases as part of other bands. This is quite evident after one spin of the album, because band’s […]
9th April 2019
Brahdr’uhz is a Swiss one-man band, one that seems to be on a mission: To bring back the original, raw Black Metal sound as it was back in the early nineties. He seems almost single-mindedly […]
1st April 2019
Seventh Genocide is an Italian Black Metal quartet with thirteen years of experience as a band. In that time, they have released two full-length albums, two Demos, two EP’s (of which SVNTH is one) and […]
26th March 2019
Triumphant Hearts is the new album from a guitar virtuoso Jason Becker. Jason Becker’s story is one of brilliance, talent, determination, adversity, and ultimately, triumph. A child prodigy on guitar, Jason rose to prominence as […]
22nd March 2019
Triste Terre is a French Atmospheric Black Metal band that has been around since 2016. In that time they have primarily focused on honing their music, releasing the occassional EP along the way. And now, […]
20th March 2019
There is something about young, unsigned bands. There has always been. A certain hunger and a view on music and even music business that is not jaded. It’s these kinds of bands that often start […]
13th March 2019
What happens when two experienced musicians put their heads together, grab a friend to play the drums and they begin to write new material? Well, in this case, the French trio took on the name […]
13th March 2019
Almost four decades into their career, Californian band come out with an album entitled, Shock. What is so shocking that they can deliver in 2019? The new album sees the band capitalizing on decades of […]
11th March 2019
Fatalistic Uprisal of Abhorrent Creation is the third full-length album of UK/Greek death/black metal band Demonic Obedience. It used to be a one-man band run by a Greek guy named George Dtavelas. He recorded his […]
5th March 2019
Dekonstruktor (band started out as Moon Mistress) is as strange and obscure as it sounds. At first I expected to hear some brutal death/black metal, but this is quite opposite and different. Having no limitation […]
28th February 2019
After two very strong releases with new singer Todd La Torre, Queensrÿche took a bit more time before releasing their 15th album. Well, it’s their 15th if you don’t count former singer Geoff Tate’s Queensrÿche […]
27th February 2019
The second full-length release by the (un)likely partnership between Primus’ bassist Les Claypool and guitarist/vocalist Sean Lennon picks up where the 2016 debut left off. This means that we are off to the expected unpredictability […]
26th February 2019
After releasing the weakest album of their carrier in the form of the previous album The Astonishing, which followed the solid, but unimpressive self-titled album, prog metal giants were in serious need of an album […]
26th February 2019
For well over three decades, New Jersey thrashers have been a safe bet for delivering solid albums, with especially last decade serving as the band’s second youth. Band’s previous album The Grinding Wheel from 2017 […]
18th June 2022
Photo: Zoran www.sonic-shot.com Some 15 minutes before hardcore punk legends from Agonistic Front took the stage the area in front of Copenhell’s third stage Pandæmonium was basically empty. But by the time they entered the […]
17th June 2022
Photo: Urban Mescalero Photography www.urbanmescalero.com “We’ve played here eight times and we are not going to play again” Paul Stanley stated in the beginning of Kiss’ farewell show on Copenhell’s main stage. Now, these farewell […]
17th June 2022
Photo: Urban Mescalero Photography www.urbanmescalero.com Judas Priest seem to have received an adrenaline shot some 50 years into their career which resulted in outstanding album Firepower. The following tour proved that the band still had […]
16th June 2022
It was somewhat of a surprise when Copenhell announced Metallica as one of their headliners, because honestly speaking, they are bigger than this festival, but perhaps because of Lars Ulrich being a Dane and this […]
16th June 2022
Photo: Zoran www.sonic-shot.com A decant crowd showed up for 7:45 gig with Red Fang at Pandæmonium stage and during their hour-long performance the band did what they do best – deliver a groovy and […]
16th June 2022
Photo: Zoran www.sonic-shot.com Ugly Kid Joe opened the second stage in front of a rather strong crowd, perhaps not that surprising taking into the consideration that the band was quite big Denmark in couple […]
16th June 2022
Photo: Zoran www.sonic-shot.com A full circle. On the first day of this, now, full four-day festival, which on the opening day is headlined by Metallica, the main stage was opened by Suicidal Tendencies. The […]
15th June 2022
On their bandcamp page it says that they’re from Cyprus, but Mirror is really a multi-national quintet consisting of Jimmy Mavrommatis (vocals), Nikolas ‘Sprits’ Moutafis (guitar), Dino (guitar), Tas (bass) and Daniel Georgiou. They’ve released […]
14th June 2022
Kadaverreich is a Russian-based Doom Metal act, one that as of time of writing seems to have three years of experience under their collective belt, not counting the excessive amount of time each of the […]
13th June 2022
More than five years have passed since the release of the sophomore album by French thrash/groove metal band Heart Attack, the rather strong and promising The Resilience. It was an album that, like many others […]
